The Adversary | |||
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Location | Skywatch Sanctuary, Lost City of the Na-Totambu | ||
Race | Redguard | Gender | Male |
Health | (?) | Difficulty | |
Reaction | Friendly → Hostile |
The Adversary is a hostile Frayed Fate of Azandar al-Cybiades seeking to replace the original Azandar. He is initially encountered as the Frayed Fate in Fathoms Drift
Related QuestsEdit
- Paths Unwalked: Continue helping Azandar with cleaning up his frayed fates.
- Adversarial Adventures: Gather more information on the adversary's plan.
- Tempting Fates: Help Azandar al-Cybiades in confronting his adversary.
Quest-Related DialogueEdit
Paths UnwalkedEdit
While you are following the threads of fate, you will encounter another version of Azandar being absorbed by the Adversary:
- Azandar the Tour Guide: "Follow me, everyone!"
- <Suddenly the red frayed fate appears and absorbs him, then leaps up high.>
- The Adversary: "You! Are Mine!"
- Azandar: "What in Oblivion? It's the fate we saw back at Fathoms Drift!"
- The Adversary: "I am not ready to face you. Not yet."
- <The Adversary leaves, leaping from rock to rock.>
- Azandar: "After him, cohort! Into the Lost City!"
You will pursue the Adversary into the Lost City of the Na-Totambu and eventually when you reach a corner within the ruins you will find the frayed fate Azandar the Prospector, the Adversary will attack and enlope him with a beam of red light:
- The Adversary: "Ah, "Azandar." My counterpart. You sought to learn, to gain power! But now you shall be replaced! Hahaha!"
- Azandar: "What are you?"
- The Adversary: "I grow ever stronger. Your fates feed me. Soon, I shall surpass even you!"
- <After absorbing the Prospector, the Adversary will change appearance, becoming a closer copy to the prime Azandar. Before he disappears.>
- Azandar: "That thing wishes to … replace me, then? Most disconcerting. We should discuss this. Outside."
Adversarial AdventuresEdit
Both you and Azandar are searching to find Azandar's Adversary in order to stop him from gaining power through modifying his Fateweaver Key. You will track down the Adversary in Nchuleftingth.
Eventually you will reach the Ametric Interval Chamber, where you will find two frayed fates writhing in pain as they are drained by the Adversary:
- Azandar: "He's here! We've got him!"
- The Adversary: "Welcome, counterpart. It's here that we discovered the true potential of the fatelines. And I've returned to claim the device I needed."
- The Adversary: "We both saw the power, the potential. The chance to claim the strength of your lessers. You rebuke our very nature!"
- <Azandar is knocked back by the Adversary's power.>
You with need to use the Fateweaver key to dispel the fates before they are drained completely. Speaking with downed Azandar:
- "Don't worry about me! Deal with the fates!"
Once you have dispelled the fates, the Adversary will take his leave:
- The Adversary: "I am the part of you that knows the true way to power. And we shall meet again."
- Azandar: "Damn it. Let's get out of here and talk."
Tempting FatesEdit
After helping Azandar form a runeform to end the threat of the Adversary, you head back to Skywatch but it's too late. There is a dark blue barrier in front of the Sanctuary Sanctum which the Adversary placed. He gloats about stealing Azandar's research and that his ritual to end Azandar has begun:
- Azandar: "What's this barrier doing here? Is this Telenger's doing? That hack!"
- <The Adversary appears, now looking like an identical spectral copy of Azandar.>
- The Adversary: "Ah, my counterpart. Forgive me, I am responsible for the barrier. I simply can't have you two interrupting me."
- The Adversary: "There it is. I couldn't wait to see the look on your face. The realization I have access to all of your theorems, relics, and research."
- The Adversary: "Your tomes were most instructive. The ritual has already begun. Your life is mine. Goodbye. For the last time."
- <The Adversary disappears.>
Once you past the barrier through Entila's Folly, you will be back inside the Sanctum and find the Adversary in the scrying chamber:
- The Adversary: "How tiresome. You've brought your companion. No matter. I am prepared."
- Azandar: "Bah! I'm starting to think you're the version of me that never learned when to shut up!"
- The Adversary: "Glib to the last. We will tear that out of you! And then I will take my rightful spot in your fateline!"
During the fight the following will be said:
- The Adversary: "My arcanum is supreme, counterpart!"
- Azandar: "Far better than you have said as much to me!"
- Azandar: "Your technique is derivative! At best!"
When you have knocked down the Adversary's health to a sufficient amount, Azandar will place the Runeform of Unmaking on him:
- Azandar: "He's down! Cohort, I'll summon the Runeform of Unmaking. Use the Fateweaver Key to banish him!"
The Runeform strips the Adversary of his appearance, leaving him a red-colored frayed fate without features. However, the Adversary does not disappear.
- The Adversary: "You'll never be rid of me. Not while my anchor remains!"
- Azandar: "His anchor…? Mora's Eyes! The Key! The Fateweaver Key is a final anchor. We … damn it. We must destroy it."
After burning out the key, the Adversary will be destroyed:
- The Adversary: "Curse you, arcanist! Nooooooooo!"
- <The Adversary disappears.>
- Azandar: "I need some fresh air. And we need to dispose of the key in a fitting manner."
- <Azandar creates a portal.>
- Azandar: "Step through the portal, if you would. I'll be right behind you."